Index 



417 



Plumage sequence affected by 

 postponed moult, 253-258 

 Pheasants, new blood, 189-193 

 Preliminary Pheasant studies, 



261-285 

 Venezuelan, 

 aquatic, of outer mangrove zone, 

 69-70 

 Bitis, 200 



food of, 232 

 Bittern, sun, 75,* 75 

 call of, 76 

 plumage, 75 

 Blaauw, F. E. (Prof.), 

 quoted on : 



chen caerulescens, 12 

 Blackbird, 



Curly-headed, 109 

 Black snake, 218 



Blackwood's Magazine (Dec, 1818), 

 quoted on : 



elephant seal, 173 

 Blair, Mary (see "C. William Beebe 



and Mary Blair") 

 Blair, W. Reid, 

 Primates, 

 affections of Respiratory and di- 

 gestive organs, 175-186 

 Boa, 

 constrictor, 



skull of, (fig. 85), 214* 

 teeth of, (fig. 85), 214* 

 feeding habits, 202 

 food of, 210 

 sand (India), 

 food of, 214 

 Tree, 205, 212 



skull of, (fig. 86), 214* 

 Bobolink, 

 condition due to breeding, 254 

 plumage affected by moult, 253, 

 256, 257 

 Bob-white, 3-5, 8, 9 

 Boidae, 201 



feeding methods, 199 

 food of, 210 

 New World, 212 

 Old World, 212 

 Bonaparte Tawny Robin, 327, 336 

 Boobies, 



parasites from, 118 

 Brachyaspis, 



food of, 226 , 

 Brewster and Chapman, 



quoted on Nyctibius jamaicensis, 

 85 

 Brisson, M. J., 

 quoted on Hoatzin, 47 



British Guiana, 

 Lepidoptera (new species), 125* 

 Mantis (new) from, 123, 124 

 British Museum Catalogue, 

 quoted on : 



Tinamou, great blue, 71 

 Bronchitis, 



primates affected with, 179, 180 

 Brown, C. Barrington, 

 quoted on Hoatzin, distribution 

 of, 50 

 Bucco hicinctus, 90 

 Bucconidae, 327 

 Buffon, G; L. L. de, 

 quoted on : 

 Hoatzin, 48 

 Hoatzin, cry of, 54 

 Bufo agua, 327 

 Buist, Dr., 

 quoted on : 



Shark, whale, 358 

 Bull Snake, (fig. 91), 220* 

 Bureau, Dr., 

 quoted on : 



Partridge, moult of, 262, 263 

 Busarellus nigricollis, 80 

 Bushmaster, 



skull of, (fig. 95), 230* 

 Buteo borealis, 11 

 Buteo Platypterus, 150-152 

 Butler, A. G. (Dr.), 

 quoted on : 

 mellanism and albinism in birds, 

 16 

 Butorides virescens, 78 



Caccabis, 263 

 Cacicus persicus, 104 

 Cacique, (see also Cassique) 



Great, 327, 339-341 



Wagler Giant, 342, 343 

 Caerulea, Florida, 77 

 Cairina moschata, 78 

 California, Lower, 



San Cristobal Bay, 



illustrations following page 173 : 

 fig. No. 69 

 Calliste, Variegated, 102 

 Calospisa mexicana vieilloti, 102 

 Campephilus guatemalensis guate- 



malensis (Hartl), 334 

 Campephilus melanoleucws, 92 

 Canchroma cochlearia, 78 

 Cande manakin, 335 

 Canje Fazanten (see "Hoatzin") 

 "Canje or Stinking Pheasant" (see 

 "Hoatzin") 



